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Offline cowboy

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Re: Sneak Peek At My Next Project
« Reply #15 on: May 29, 2008, 05:17:58 pm »
Me too. That's some purty wood Destructo, don't look like something you cut in the panhandle :).
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Offline DanaM

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Re: Sneak Peek At My Next Project
« Reply #16 on: May 29, 2008, 08:29:25 pm »
Yup thats Yooper Birdseye Maple, high dollar wood there, one veneer log of it will sell for thousands :o

Looks real purty Mike :)
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Offline El Destructo

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Re: Sneak Peek At My Next Project
« Reply #17 on: May 29, 2008, 08:36:27 pm »
Yup thats Yooper Birdseye Maple, high dollar wood there, one veneer log of it will sell for thousands :o

Looks real purty Mike :)

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Offline DanaM

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Re: Sneak Peek At My Next Project
« Reply #18 on: May 29, 2008, 08:39:28 pm »
Mike I just use a B-50 bowstring for a tillering string. If ya make it up this summer you need to bring this bow with ya eh ;D
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Offline El Destructo

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Re: Sneak Peek At My Next Project
« Reply #19 on: May 29, 2008, 08:54:33 pm »
Oh.....I take all my New Ones Home...My Brothers and Dad would be peeved at Me if I didn't...they look forward to seeing them....So I go Home with Bows and come back with Logs!!!
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Offline Jesse

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Re: Sneak Peek At My Next Project
« Reply #20 on: May 29, 2008, 09:26:47 pm »
Nice bow looking forward also to the finished product.
I like fast flight for a tillering string. It doesnt stretch which is nice when you are trying to put a low brace on a reflexed bow for the first time.
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Offline ricktrojanowski

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Re: Sneak Peek At My Next Project
« Reply #21 on: May 29, 2008, 10:08:47 pm »
I use a B 50 with a timber hitch on one end and a loop on the other.
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Re: Sneak Peek At My Next Project
« Reply #22 on: July 10, 2008, 04:50:30 pm »
how did this one turn out? i was wanting to do my first build with birdseye but it is a lot of $ but i did grab some chunks of veneer from work so might be able to do somthing with that......i just need to find time to get to uncle danas (danaM) so he can teach me the primitave ways....


Offline Blacktail

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Re: Sneak Peek At My Next Project
« Reply #23 on: July 10, 2008, 09:37:21 pm »
sorry to hear about the string.i love the wood and i hope it works out for you.john

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Re: Sneak Peek At My Next Project
« Reply #24 on: July 11, 2008, 12:30:23 am »
Josh.... I have been playing with it a Bit....but I have been working so much I haven't had time to really get into it.....It is going to make a really nice Bow though....Whether it is finished or not.....I am taking it up North with Me to show My Dad...and will be taking it to Dana's also....He was watching the Build too....so maybe you can see it too....as for the String.,.... I bought some Mountain Climbing Cord...it should be tough enough!!
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Re: Sneak Peek At My Next Project
« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2008, 01:36:22 am »
No doubt gonna be a great bow,that inner cord stuff gots uses :)